On the Road with Bear Kerouac

About Me

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I've spent the last 6 months traveling the USA in my conversion Van. I have more trip to do, the west coast and the rockies still. Hopefully I'll find the perfect place to live but it's not likely. A lot of people ask me my favorite places from my trip or places I might want to live, well here they are: 1. St. Mary's Georgia/Cumberland Island - A small cute town just over the Florida border from Jacksonville, not too much to do unless you like to fish, and to get to the beach you have to take a ferry out to the island. On the island there is the remnants of an old estate built partly from stone and Wild Horses everywhere, very few people live on the island. The problem for me would be, no mountain nearby to go hike up, can't just walk over to the ocean.
2. Manteo, Outer Banks, North Carolina, This cute little town really stole my heart, it's about 5 miles from the beach. It's not far from where the Wright Brothers first flew, lots of sailing there in the bay and there is a beautiful little island right next to the town where they have a festival park and a really neat history museum.
3. Vermont, there were at least 2-3 parts of Vermont that I just loved so much. Middle Western part looking across Lake Champlain to New York State. Other places I liked a lot were southwestern and the town of Grafton which was very beautiful, probably not many jobs as it's mostly a town of bed and breakfasts. The problem with Vermont is the winters I just don't think I could handle them, so this rules out the Adirondacks, Chicago and Quebec City all of which I loved.
Nothing else really stands out as much as these 3. I did like San Clemente California a lot.
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My Interests

albert bierstadt, animals, apes, aspen, beach volleyball, beaches, belize, bermuda, bigfoot, bill bryson, blue skies, busch in a can, camaros, camping, cape canaveral, carmen electra, cast away, castaway, celebrities, chocolate, cinque terre, cocoa beach, colorado, colors, cooking, costa rica, derek and the dominoes, descendents, desert islands, deserted islands, dogs, doubledrive, duran duran, electric guitars, email, england, enzian, eric clapton, europe, exploring, extremes, florida, florida keys, forests, friendly people, friends of dean martinez, frisbee, gardening, gnomes, godspeed you! black emperor, gossip, gov't mule, grits, growing vegetables, guitar, hammocks, hammond b3, ice cream, ice cube, islands, java, karaoke, kayaking, key largo, key west, lake district, lake trout, lakes, lana'i, lanai, laughing, levanto, london, maui, merritt island, mesa boogie, mexican food, monkeys, mountains, mutiny on the bounty, native americans, neil young, oak ridge high school, old metallica, orlando, outdoors, paradise, park city, parties, paul theroux, philips phile, pirates, planets, playing guitar, prince, reading, real love, riding bikes, rocky mountains, sailboats, sailing, sand, saturday night live, scarface, schatzi, scuba diving, sex, skunk ape, smiles, smoothies, space, streams, suicidal tendencies, sunrises, sunsets, sunshine, swimming, switzerland, tahiti, ted nugent, thai food, that 70's show, the daily show, the keys, the ocean, the sun, tony's deli, travel, travel narratives, travel writers, travel writing, traveling, tropical, tube amps, utah, utopia, vanilla, vegetarians, venice beach, warren haynes, water, waterfalls, what a fuckin penis, wolverine, x-men, yahoo, you

I'd like to meet:

People I already know in real life

Movies:

Scarface, Goodfellas, Legends of the Fall, Fletch, National Lampoons Vacation, Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Big Lebowski, Mallrats, Ravenous , The Mosquito Coast, Jaws, Cast AwayAction/Adventure * Raiders of the Lost Ark * Leon/The Professional * Die Hard Animation * Secret of Nimh * Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh * Wallace

Television:

Saturday Night Live, That 70's Show, Friends, Seinfeld, Ali G, Curb your Enthusiasm

Books:

The Hobbit Mutiny in The Bounty Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey Happy Isles of Oceania - Paul Theroux Pillars of Hercules - Paul Theroux Notes from a Small island - Bill Bryson The Best American Travel Writing 2000-2003 Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain No Survivors - Will Henry The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson The Curse of Lono - Hunter S. Thompson Kingdom of Fear - Hunter S. Thompson Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley Castaway in Paradise: The Incredible Adventures of True-Life Robinson Crusoes - James C. Simmons

Heroes:

Paul Theroux, Neil Peart

My Blog

2 cool bands

I just went to the bumbershoot music festival here in seattle and these two bands were awesome. The first one sounds like borat started a heavy metal folk band.http://www.myspace.com/gogolbordellothe ...
Posted by On the Road with Bear Kerouac on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:56:00 PST

books part 2

ok after my last journal post about this subject here is a list of books I want to read, most of these I found by browsing in barnes and nobles and a few on amazon and shelfari:best american travel wr...
Posted by On the Road with Bear Kerouac on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:32:00 PST

Vancouver Island and Olympic Peninsula

Aberdeen, Washington August 16th, 2007 Once on Vancouver Island I found myself in the town of mostly strip malls but a nice bay that the ferry came in on. I drove north and west on s...
Posted by On the Road with Bear Kerouac on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:32:00 PST

need suggestions for things to visit in Cali, Oregon, Washington

need suggestions for things to visit in Cali, Oregon, Washingtonok here is a loose list of where I'll be when:now until september 5th, hanging around seattle area doing nothing hoping someone will com...
Posted by On the Road with Bear Kerouac on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:33:00 PST

movies I’ve missed

I've been on the road 2 months and a week or so here are the movies I missed, that I want to see, mostly while on the road but a few before that, any other movies I should see that came out since abou...
Posted by On the Road with Bear Kerouac on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:38:00 PST

Idaho, Montana and Canada

August 1st, 2007South of Hot Springs, Western Montana From Canmore I drove east and then south and had some tire trouble, I got that partially sorted out the next morning but i...
Posted by On the Road with Bear Kerouac on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:59:00 PST

funny signs

at a chinese place i've eaten a few times, the chocolate ice cream dispenser works but not the vanilla one the sign says: "vanilla gone glitch" what are some funny signs you have seen?
Posted by On the Road with Bear Kerouac on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:08:00 PST

a couple movies from my trip, stampede, old faithful erupting, seaplane taking off

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Posted by On the Road with Bear Kerouac on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:26:00 PST

stings, tires and bridges of poles

I had some tire woes in canada but got those solved a few days ago and then spent 2 nights at a aWESOme hostel in a remote town that has no power called polebridge. The hostel was made out of logs and...
Posted by On the Road with Bear Kerouac on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:54:00 PST

Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Canada

July 25th, 2007Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Canada I got to Yellowstone early in the morning and my first stop was Old Faithful. I arrived at a good time, aft...
Posted by On the Road with Bear Kerouac on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:35:00 PST